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https://undark.org/2023/11/20/clinical-trial-injury/

Abstract Background At the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR conference on research waste, the late Doug Altman revealed that his only regret about his 1994 BMJ paper ‘The scandal of poor medical research’ was that he used the word ‘poor’ rather than ‘bad’. But how much research is bad? And what would...

Registration and primary outcome reporting in behavioral health trials | BMC Medical Research Methodology | Full Text (biomedcentral.com) Abstract Background Registration of research studies is designed to lock investigators into a data collection and analysis plan before a study starts and...

They have no idea how deep this goes. Small study hints that interference from bodies funding research into public-health issues such as nutrition and exercise might be more common than realized. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02242-x A survey of public-health researchers has...

Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time Background Discrepancies between pre-specified and reported outcomes are an important source of bias in trials. Despite legislation...

Another date for our diary, Esther Crawley confirmed as a speaker at the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) later this year: http://espidmeeting.org/2018/scientific-information/confirmed-invited-speakers#.WkuWyJCnzMI